It’s all a question of whether Google actually cares about these businesses enough to stay focused on them.

Google, the company where many things remain in Infinite Beta. The company that tossed Wave overboard for Plus. It’s their record. Google has ADHD in its DNA.

No one has yet written about how Google has degraded the usefulness of Google Books (that’s Books; not Google Play Books, which is a commercial beast). Maybe one day I’ll get arsed enough to do that post. I seem to be the only person in the eBook world who has actually used it.

Google Books is the symbol for how little Google gives a damn about what it has touted as “important.” That they’ve degraded that to near-uselessness points to the future of the Nexus tablet and its grand Play Store strategy too.

Google is not a consumer company. It’s an advertising company.

Someone out there is going to wind up with a lemon Nexus 7. Those are just the odds of all manufacturing. That person had better post about Google’s customer service for that. I can tell you right now, it’s not going to be like Amazon’s!

And no one is going to dump their Kindle Fire and free Prime video for a Google Nexus tablet.